Shorts, fests, etc, 9/23.
“Despite his relative obscurity in the United States, Mauricio Kagel, who died in Germany last week at the age of 76, was one of the 20th century’s great conceptual artists,” writes Chris Dumas in Nextbook. “A composer whose assaultive music was categorized as ‘classical’ because record stores didn’t know where else to put it, Kagel was an intellectual prankster and social provocateur on the grand, protean level of Marcel Duchamp – or Lenny Bruce…. In his short films (and one feature) for German television, he demonstrated a surrealist sense of dramatic illogic and a master’s eye for visual form, coupling his propriety-shredding music with equally propriety-shredding images.”
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